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How exactly is this different from Dedicated Instances (which have been around for years)? "Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances that run on single-tena
by abrookewood 11y ago
How exactly is this different from Dedicated Instances (which have been around for years)? "Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances that run on single-tenant hardware dedicated to a single customer. They are ideal for workloads where corporate policies or industry regulations require that your EC2 instances be physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to other customers. Dedicated Instances let you take full advantage of the benefits of the AWS cloud – on-demand elastic provisioning, pay only for what you use, all while ensuring that your Amazon EC2 compute instances are isolated at the hardware level."
- abrookewood 11y agoI'm guessing it's simply that you know exactly which hosts you are running on, which would solve the licensing issue mentioned below. Any other reasons/benefits?
- Sanddancer 11y agoThis basically lets you have an entire machine dedicated to a specific type of VM instance, plus have the underlying hardware information, to ease licensing requirements that certain programs and operating systems have. So you can get a box of m4.larges and know exactly what programs are running on it; for example, RedHat offers per-vm server licensing, so running 20 instances on RHEL on your dedicated box just costs you the flat rate VM host cost.
- Spooky23 11y agoIt probably allows you to run your Oracle workloads.